So, if the posters are free, what’s the actual protectable intellectual property in these companies? How do they differentiate their product? What’s to keep someone else from, like, offering the Nebraska minimum wage poster for 5¢ less?

The Workplace Posting Strike Force isn’t going to kick down your door and drag you to jail for not posting a Polygraph Protection Act notice in your break room. Labor posters serve to show that the company let employees know about their rights.

Every law tells a story. Something happened to make the legislature need to put a law in writing. This labor poster from Georgia is no exception. And the story it tells is pretty grim.